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PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon — AMD hit marketing gold with its 1 GHz Athlon, beat Intel by a nose (www.tomshardware.com)

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Consumer PCs have long abandoned the multi-GHz race for core count and NPU inflation.

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[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

its a shame we will never have another era of wonder like that again.

a flash in the pan that lead to a magical explosion of technological development and progress, with all kinds of wild and crazy ideas being thrown at the wall to see what stuck, while things like computational power screamed ahead at supersonic speeds.